From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 11:30:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA4C37BE9C for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7GITfU31006; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:29:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008161829.e7GITfU31006@ptavv.es.net> To: "Duke Normandin" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: OT - what is a .bz2 file? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:14:55 MDT." <001c01c00784$b6586de0$dd9fc5d1@odie> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:29:41 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A bz2 is a file compressed with bzip, a drop-in replacement for gzip, but with more efficient compression. A bzipped file is smaller than the same file run through gzip and max compression. bzip2 is in /usr/ports/archivers/bzip2. Go there and "make build". If that works, "make install clean". Syntax is generally the same as for gzip. You can untar with: bunzip2 < file.bz2 | tar xf - R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message